Overview
- The new CVO–SGP–ABO coalition presented its bestuursakkoord on Monday, June 29, making campaign positions formal municipal policy and scheduling the council to debate the plan next week.
- A key symbolic move is a pledge to stop hoisting the rainbow flag at the town hall and to remove the municipality’s local LGBT policy that recommended COC as a school partner.
- On asylum the coalition demands small-scale reception only, caps of about 75 people per site, preference for groups it calls culturally 'close' such as persecuted Christians, and exclusions for emergency reception and several vulnerable categories.
- The coalition also calls for repeal of the national Spreidingswet, rejects taking existing neighbourhoods off gas, and proposes more zondagsrust, positions that directly challenge national rules and policy expectations.
- National actors have warned of legal limits on municipal refusal to host asylum seekers, COA has judged many proposed sites unsuitable, and the dispute could prompt legal review or national intervention if Oldebroek tries to block placements.